Land And The Politics Of Belonging In West Africa
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Land And The Politics Of Belonging In West Africa
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Author : Richard Kuba
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-12-01
Land And The Politics Of Belonging In West Africa written by Richard Kuba and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide.
Land And The Politics Of Belonging In Africa
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Author : Carola Lentz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Land And The Politics Of Belonging In Africa written by Carola Lentz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Land Mobility And Belonging In West Africa
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Author : Carola Lentz
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-05
Land Mobility And Belonging In West Africa written by Carola Lentz and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-05 with Social Science categories.
An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University
Property And Political Order In Africa
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Author : Catherine Boone
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-10
Property And Political Order In Africa written by Catherine Boone and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with Business & Economics categories.
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.
Land Law And Politics In Africa
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Author : Jan Abbink
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-11-11
Land Law And Politics In Africa written by Jan Abbink and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-11 with Law categories.
This book offers a series of new studies on the dynamics of political and legal culture as well as of conflict management in contemporary Africa, taking inspiration from and honoring the scholarly contributions and impact of Prof. Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009) in African Studies.
Neoliberal Bandwagonism Civil Society And The Politics Of Belonging In Anglophone Cameroon
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Author : Piet Konings
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009
Neoliberal Bandwagonism Civil Society And The Politics Of Belonging In Anglophone Cameroon written by Piet Konings and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
While neoliberals typically view civil society organizations as vital channels for the implementation of economic and political reforms, they are also inclined to blame the politics of belonging for the poor record of these reforms. Piet Konings rejects such notions and argues that the relationship between civil society and the politics of belonging is more complex in Africa than Western donors and scholars are inclined to admit. He argues that ethno-regional associations and movements are more significant constituents of civil society in Africa than the conventional organizations that are often uncritically imposed or endorsed. He shows how the politics of belonging, so pervasive in Cameroon, and indeed much of Africa, during the current neoliberal economic and political reforms, has tended to penetrate the entire range of associational life, and he calls for a critical re-appraisal of prevalent notions and assumptions about civil society in the interest of African reality.
Development Dual Citizenship And Its Discontents In Africa
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Author : Robtel Neajai Pailey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Development Dual Citizenship And Its Discontents In Africa written by Robtel Neajai Pailey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.
Making Nations Creating Strangers
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Author : Sarah Rich Dorman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
Making Nations Creating Strangers written by Sarah Rich Dorman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.
Land Labour And Entrustment
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Author : Pamela Kea
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010
Land Labour And Entrustment written by Pamela Kea and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in The Gambia.
Local Politics And The Dynamics Of Property In Africa
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Author : Christian Lund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-24
Local Politics And The Dynamics Of Property In Africa written by Christian Lund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-24 with Political Science categories.
Access to land and property is vital to people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagination to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political, administrative, and legal institutions. This book is dedicated to a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. While scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from this book shows that when there are many institutions competing for the right to authorize claims to land, the result of an effort to unify and clarify the law is to intensify competition among them and weaken their legitimacy. The book particularly explores how state divestiture of land in 1979 encouraged competition between customary authorities and how the institution of the earthpriest was revived. Such processes are key to understanding property and authority in Africa.